Anomali YEC News

The Welcoming Screen inside the Debaters Hall

Since its establishment in 2003, Phyxius Debate Association has become the most influential English Debate Society in West Java and even National scale in terms of activity and identity. Just recently they held the 4th Phyxius English Debate Championship, participated by schools from Jakarta and Bandung. For this special occasion, Anomali also assisted St. Albert school from Malang to participate in this competition, regardless of distance constraint. Our aim is for our new partner school in Malang to witness the debating experience in national scale and also to learn from Phyxius as a full-fledged and established English Debate Club.

The event turned out to be a massive blast for everyone who were participating. From Anomali side, we were glad to see our other partner schools from Bandung and Jakarta there. From our kids from Malang, they were surprised and astonished by the quality and the enjoyment of the tournament. Anomali would like to congratulate the committee for being able to create a platfrom of debate competition not just as an academical challenge, but also as a youthful and entertaining event. We think that the strategy used to introduce motions entertainingly and the strategy used to build tension and competitiveness amongst participants are good learning opportunities for other schools. More importantly Anomali would also like to congratulate PDA for being able to stay succesfuly independent and self-maintained for the past seven years as an English Debate Club. We are proud to have assisted you all steps of the way.

The Yet To Be Glorious Malang's St. Albert Team.

Our heartfelt congratulations also goes for the teams who managed to secure high-ranking positions in the competition, which just happened to be schools under Anomali’s partnership. We would like to congratulate SMAN 81 Jakarta as the champion, and of course Ruth as our favorite speaker (we have a good picture of her actually wearing a skirt!), also for Canisius College as the runner up. Good job for their coaches, especially Mr. Erry from Anomali as Canisius College’s coach. Malang’s St. Albert managed to secure the position as the octo-finalist, in which we deemed not bad as their first debate competition experience. Overall, the days of PEDC are really good days for us.